Installing the PHP module on Linux/Solaris

To use the SQL Anywhere PHP module on Linux or Solaris, you must copy the shared object from the SQL Anywhere installation
directory and add it to your PHP installation. Optionally, you can add an entry to your PHP initialization file, php.ini, to load the module, so you do not need to load it manually in each script.

To install the PHP module on Linux/Solaris

Locate the php.ini file of your PHP installation, and open it in a text editor. Locate the line that specifies the location of the extension_dir directory. If extension_dir is not set to any specific directory, it is a good idea to set it to point to an isolated directory for better system security.

Copy the shared object from the lib32 or lib64 subdirectory of your SQL Anywhere installation to the directory specified by the extension_dir entry in the php.ini file. Your choice of shared object will depend on the version of PHP that you have installed and whether it is a 32-bit or
a 64-bit version.

Note

If your version of PHP is more recent than the shared object provided by SQL Anywhere, try using the most recent shared object
provided. Note that a version 5.2.x SQL Anywhere PHP module will not work with a version 5.3.x PHP.

Before attempting to use the PHP module, verify that your PHP execution environment is set up for SQL Anywhere. Depending
on which shell you are using, you must edit the configuration script for your web server's environment and add the appropriate
command to source the SQL Anywhere configuration script from the SQL Anywhere installation directory:

In this shell ...

... use this command

sh, ksh, or bash

. /bin32/sa_config.sh

csh or tcsh

source /bin32/sa_config.csh

The 32-bit version of the SQL Anywhere PHP extension DLL requires the bin32 directory to be in your path. The 64-bit version of the SQL Anywhere PHP extension DLL requires the bin64 directory to be in your path.

The configuration file in which this line should be inserted is different for different web servers and on different Linux
distributions. Here are some examples for the Apache server on the indicated distributions:

RedHat/Fedora/CentOS /etc/sysconfig/httpd

Debian/Ubuntu /etc/apache2/envvars

The web server must be restarted after editing its environment configuration.

At a command prompt, run the following command to start the SQL Anywhere sample database:

dbeng11 samples-dir/demo.db

At a command prompt, change to the sdk/php/examples subdirectory of your SQL Anywhere installation. Enter the following command:

php test.php

Messages similar to the following should appear. If the php command is not recognized, verify that php is in your path.